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Porn Site Owner Gets 5 Years Probation
BARTOW, Fla. -- A man who ran a pornographic Web site that included grisly photographs of war dead taken by U.S. troops was sentenced Friday to five years' probation, his attorney said.
Chris Wilson, 28, a former Eagle Lake police officer, pleaded no contest in January to five misdemeanor charges of possession of obscene materials. The state dismissed 296 other similar charges.
Wilson's Web site gave soldiers free access to pornography in exchange for posting pictures from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Polk County sheriff's officials said Wilson's arrest in October stemmed from the site's sexually explicit content, not the pictures of war dead.
"He agreed to stay out of the adult Web site business for the term of his probation," defense attorney Larry Walters said.
Though the Web site launched a Pentagon investigation into how war zone photos of charred and dismembered bodies described as victims of U.S. attacks could have surfaced, military investigators did not pursue criminal charges against Wilson.
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